From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jun 8 23:46:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267D337C211 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Joachim.Strombergson@Ericsson.com) Received: from poem.emw.ericsson.se (poem.emw.ericsson.se [136.225.49.25]) by penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.10.1/8.10.1/WIREfire-1.9) with ESMTP id e596kXr16763 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:46:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from Ericsson.com (balvenie.mo.emw.ericsson.se [136.225.229.97]) by poem.emw.ericsson.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA05104 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:46:28 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <394092B9.19DB13C3@Ericsson.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 08:46:17 +0200 From: Joachim Strombergson Organization: Ericsson Microwave Systems AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-EMW [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-smp Subject: FCPGA and the new Celerons in BP6 MB for SMP? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! I'm since a year back a happy owner of a FreeBSD SMP system currently based on the ABIt BP6 MB equipped with two Celeron 366 PPGA processors. Then system running FreeBSD 4.0 is stable and able to take a great load, like EMACS and StarOffice at the same time... But the speed (SETI hours actually) isn't enough for my needs/wishes/geek-wants. After overcooking/overclocking them (yes, yes - I know it's a no, no) I've had a few hiccups in the system. I'm therefore resorting to more certified ways of getting better performance (can we ever have enough? ;-) I've tried to figure out if the BP6 or any other MB with PPGA sockets can use the new Celerons with FCPGA packaging. There are converters to connect a FCPGA to a Slot1 MB, but haven't seen anything related to PPGA. Is the PPGA a dead end? Also, are the new Celerons (566/600) SMP-able? I've asked around, but gotten highly different answers. Should I instead opt for the older 500 or 533 MHz non-coppermine based Celerons? So, anyone with real world experience on this? Is the truth out there? -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning ---------------- Ericsson Microwave Systems AB ----------------- Joachim Strömbergson http://www.ericsson.se/microwave ASIC System on Silicon engineer, nice to CUTE animals. * Opinions above, expressed or implicit, are strictly personal * ------------- Spamfodder: regeringen@regeringen.se ------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message